The challenge
Strivin brings people together to connect, learn and grow. It's a networking and education platform, where members build relationships, share what they know and develop their skills alongside people with similar goals.
Platforms like this depend on engagement. A networking product is only valuable if members come back, meet people and get something useful from each visit. That puts a lot of weight on the product itself. Conversations need to happen easily, whether as a quick message, a group discussion or a face-to-face video call. Learning content needs to sit naturally beside the community, so education and networking reinforce each other instead of living in separate places.
It also puts weight on how the product is run after launch. Community platforms evolve constantly. Members ask for new features, bugs surface as usage grows, and the team needs good analytics to understand what's working. Without reliable development and support behind it, even a strong product can lose momentum.
Strivin needed a partner who could build the platform and then stay on to maintain and improve it, shipping changes quickly enough to keep members engaged and giving the team clearer insight into how the product was used.
Our approach
Build the social core
We designed and built a social platform with video calls, one-to-one messaging and group posts, giving members several natural ways to connect.
Put learning beside community
We built education features into the same product, so members could learn and network in one place.
Maintain, fix and measure
We stayed on to maintain the platform, streamlining bug fixes, speeding up development and improving product analytics so the team could see how members actually used Strivin. The platform runs on Bubble, designed in Figma.
The results
Strivin has a complete networking and education platform, built and maintained by one team. Members can message, post and meet by video, and learning sits right alongside the community. Five core features, from video calls to learning, now live in one platform.
Our ongoing work focused on what keeps a community product healthy. Faster development meant member requests turned into features sooner. Streamlined bug fixing meant issues were resolved before they frustrated users. Better product analytics gave the Strivin team a clear view of adoption, so they could make decisions based on how members behaved.
Together, those improvements helped lift product adoption and deliver more value to Strivin's network, as described in our existing Strivin case study.
For Lightning Ventures, Strivin is a strong example of a long-term product relationship, where building the platform is the start and maintaining it well is what keeps it growing.
“The Lightning team has been awesome to work with. They instantly jumped in and got us up and running so that we could focus on delivering value to our network.”
What this means for your business
If you run a community, network or membership platform, the product's job is to make connection easy and keep people coming back. Launch is only the beginning. How quickly you ship improvements and fix problems decides whether members stay.
We build social and education platforms with messaging, video and community features, and we stay on to maintain them, speed up delivery and give you better analytics. If your community platform has stalled, let's talk about getting it moving again.
